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Is it ever too late for love? Natasha by @DahliaDonovan #book #Giveaway

August 30, 2014

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Blurb:

Undercover Interpol agent Natasha Itsov is the ice queen of the European shifter world. Her reputation for loving and leaving without a second thought is well known. Until she met Darren Martel, another fox shifter. She broke both of their hearts when she ran from the bond forming between them.

It’s been years since they’ve crossed paths with each other.

The threat of the Auctioneer looming over Ivy brings the two shifters together for one last mission. Old wounds are reopened, while they struggle to ignore the bond formed all those years ago. Neither wants to risk another catastrophic broken heart, yet neither wants to walk away from the chance of happily ever after.

Is it ever too late for love?

Natasha is the second book of the Blackbird series by Dahlia Donovan. Book one, Ivy, is currently for sale on Amazon, Nook & Smashwords.

“Get in here, girl.” Marin Petrov pounded on his desk.
Natasha heard it echo all the way in her own office.Jolting from the forms she had been filling out for his
next business trip, Natasha slid her feet into her black stilettos and
quickly made her way from her office into his. The absurdity of one of the
worst human traffickers in Europe having an office fit for a lawyer never
ceased to strike her as disturbingly or perhaps disgustingly normal.
She kept her expression blank and bored when she stepped in front of him.His gaze drifted, as it always did, from her pointed heels
along her stockings to her leather skirt and white buttoned blouse. Natasha
raised an eyebrow at him. She never let him intimidate her. It was why he’d
kept her alive when most of his secretaries met untimely accidents
when their noses strayed too far into his business.“We’re moving to Kiev.” Petrov tossed a stack of papers in
her direction. She crouched down to retrieve them, careful not to give him the
view he wanted. “Get it organised. Now.”Natasha nodded politely and exited the office as quickly as
she had entered it. Her disgust for the man was difficult to mask at times. Of
all the undercover assignments Natasha Itsov had taken for Interpol, she
thought working with the Auctioneer might possibly be the worst. She
glanced briefly down at the documents in her hands and froze when a familiar
name caught her attention.Blackbird Security Firm.The last time Natasha had dealt with Blackbird there had
been complications. Major complications. She wondered briefly about
the broken-hearted man she had left behind. Poor Darren. A smile
briefly flashed across her face. It lit up her icy blue eyes. Her
full lips slowly dropped down into a frown though as she considered the
implications of Petrov’s interest in the security firm.She had met Darren Martel when they worked on a joint-task
force many years ago on a human trafficking case for the International Criminal
Court. Their affair had been brief but fiery. She could still picture every
inch of his freckled skin in her mind and had frequent dreams about tying him
to her bed.Oh, sweet Darren.Why would Petrov be interested in Blackbird?It was a question still plaguing Natasha several days later
while setting up the office in Kiev. She heard rumours of a new girl Petrov had
gone to Moldova to grab. Her Interpol handler told her they’d almost captured
him there. They grabbed another slimy bastard instead, Valentin Krupin. Steven
Samuels and Gareth Richardson from Blackbird had contacted them with the info
but the wolves were gone with the girl before they arrived.Her fingers itched to pick up her telephone, but it was too
risky for direct contact. Petrov would kill her if he found out, and Interpol
wouldn’t be pleased with her either if she ruined years of undercover work.
Natasha finally decided to create a dummy e-mail account. She used old codes
Darren would remember to let him know where she was, what she was doing and
warn him about the Auctioneer.Her krasnij lis.Her red fox.

Dahlia
Donovan started out working in the insurance world. After ten years, she
morphed her love of investigating accidents and studying people into writing
about them. She's a bit of a hermit and despises being in front of a camera.
Her life wouldn't be complete without her husband and her massive collection of
books and video games.Her
first novel Ivy started out as a crazy dream which she turned into an
adventurous and suspenseful paranormal romance. Her second novel Natasha is
schedule for release at the end of August. It will be followed by an Ivy short
story titled Masquerade sometime in the autumn. A third novel in the Blackbird
series, Alicia, will come out in 2015.

Readers
can find Under Fire, a free short story available to all her newsletter
subscribers. See her website for more details.